Since it started raining over the past couple of weeks I have had very intermittent ADSL. For much of the time I get a connection for a minute or two, then lose it for a minute or two, and so forth. The phone line is often crackly and I sometimes lose the ring tone. Sounds like water in a connection at the top of a pole to me. Maybe it is cyclic as the dial tone current dries out water bridging the connectors either thermally or by electrolysis, then more water gets in. "Remote" line tests show nothing. I've only had one Openreach engineer in so far, and there was no phone or broadband fault at that time. (Definitely outside the house, I get exactly the same behaviour with a spare router and different cable and filter, and Openreach put in a new faceplate with built in filter too. Call is logged with Plusnet.
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10 years ago